bearberry
Americannoun
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any of several prostrate shrubs belonging to the genus Arctostaphylos, of the heath family, especially A. uva-ursi, having tonic, astringent leaves and bright-red berries.
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any of several other plants, as some species of cranberry.
noun
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a trailing evergreen ericaceous shrub, Arctostaphylos uva-ursi , with small pinkish-white flowers, red berries, and astringent leaves
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a related species, A. alpina of European mountains, having black berries
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Origin of bearberry
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Hyper Skin’s latest face mask will leave you radiant while also working to fade dark spots with niacinamide and bearberry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2022
A ways down the road we found equally varied botany: dwarf willows, crowberry plants and alpine bearberry shrubs that would turn crimson in two months.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2016
Fa had given them to him when he was seven, rubbing bearberry juice into the pierced skin.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
She pulled herself to the top with a branch of bearberry shrub, and offered him her hand.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
The Greek generic name, translated into English, becomes "bearberry."
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
The term “traditional tobacco” can refer to other indigenous plants that may not contain nicotine at all, including the dried leaves of bearberries and the bark from red and spotted willows.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 29, 2018
That night we camped at the foot of the volcano, in a meadow carpeted with yellow rhododendrons and crimson bearberries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The girls join their mothers in picking berries, which are plentiful and of great variety—raspberries, strawberries, cranberries, blueberries, gooseberries, swampberries, saskatoonberries, pembinaberries, pheasantberries, bearberries, and snakeberries.
From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Heming, Arthur Henry Howard
Yes, ma'am," said Asahel staring a little; — "there's red raspberries, and black raspberries, and low-bush blackberries and high blackberries, and huckleberries, and bearberries, and cranberries; besides nuts, and apples.
From Hills of the Shatemuc by Warner, Susan
The juice of bearberries gives them a bright red.
From The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure by Heming, Arthur Henry Howard
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